Rice Creek Commons

Rice Creek Commons is a 427-acre site that is slated for major residential and commercial redevelopment. The redevelopment focuses on creating a vibrant community that can serve as a national model for sustainable redevelopment. The partners developing the site are prioritizing energy infrastructure that can set the standard for efficient building design and low carbon emissions.

Ever-Green has been a long-standing advisor to this project, as a civic partner, and as a leader of the energy system master planning project team, which initially also included the Center for Energy and Environment and Burns & McDonnell. Ever-Green continues to provide support to the implementation phase of development. In 2024, Ever-Green, along with LHB, conducted an analysis of the design standards that could be established for the site, as well as an evaluation of the most cost-effective options for delivering low-carbon energy solutions to buildings at the redevelopment.

Study & planning

Community utility

Approximately 2.5 million square feet

1,460 housing units, along with hotel, grocery, commercial, retail, mixed use, civic, and corporate buildings

• Carbon savings of nearly 70%
• Elimination of water use for cooling on-site

• Low-temperature district heating and cooling from a remediated water supply
• Combined heat and power
• Thermal storage
• Solar photovoltaic
• Solar thermal